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Praying The Weather Man Is Right
Today in the Nashville area we have an 80% chance of severe thunderstorms all day long but tomorrow it is showing sunny/partly cloudy and a high of 76 degrees.
Our church and five other churches are doing service work in the community instead of our regular service tomorrow and we really need it to not rain!!!!
Hundreds of people from these churches will be heading out to six different places, mostly schools and a nurshing home, to paint, plant shrubs, wash windows & cars, and a lot of other things these places need done but don't have the money in their budget to do. Most of these schools serve low income students or students in trouble like unwed young mothers or students for whom this school is a last chance as they have been kicked out of others.
The pinrcipals of these schools already are so excited about what we are doing as they feel like they are often times overlooked by the community.
We will descend on these places and work for several hours then all of the churches are meeting at a park for a picnic afterwards.
My job is to somehow drive to all six locations in about a 2 hour timeframe and videotape a few minutes at each of the activity going on. I think my GPS is going to get a workout!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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